| Author |
Quotes |
| Howard Aiken | Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. |
| Isaac Newton | There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. |
| John Saxe | It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. |
| Jorge Luis Borges | The original is unfaithful to the translation. |
| Ketaki Bhave | Some people see things and ask Why? I dream things which never were and askWhy not? |
| Lou Dorfsman | Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. |
| Mark Twain | Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. |
| Mary Henle | It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. |
| Mary Lou Cook | Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. |
| Miles Davis | Don't play what's there, play what's not there. |
| R I Fitzhenry | Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. |
| Robert Flaherty | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. |
| Sholem Asch | The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. |
| Thomas Browne | ... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. |
| Thomas Carlyle | The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. |
| Tony Bennett | I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. |
| Voltaire | The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. |
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